Rules:

1. If a player catches the ball but does not pick up a stick or vice versa then the turn passes to the other.
2. Anyone who picks up more than one stick must pass the turn to the other.
3. When a losing player has to lay out the sticks he has in his hand, he may lay out as many as he likes and how he likes. The most common and difficult way is to lay them on top of each other, for then the other player has to knock them apart or spread them out with his hand as well as pick one up – and that is difficult.
4. At the end, when all the sticks are won, the losing player lays out the last 2 sticks far apart and the leader has to pick up both with his last throw or pass the turn over to the other. Thus, the game is often lost because of the last 2 sticks.
5. When a player makes a mistake, the person who has just laid out keeps all the sticks which are lying on the playing area, even those he lost and laid out himself. The sticks that are in a player’s hand should immediately be laid out so that they may be won again by skill, but those that are already laid out may be taken by the rules of the game and do not have to be won again by skill.